The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-05
Ralfrioun Notas.


Ruskin: 1t is better to be nobly remembered
than nobly born
The War Cry, the organ of the Salvation
Army. is published in eight different languages,
and has q weekly circulation of 436. 900 copies.
negro youth from the Congo region was
christened at Brussels. Belgium. by Bishop Vau-
den Burgle, May IL. the Queen standing god
mother.
day school worker. recently said: Thinking.
trying, toling, trusting in God-that is all of my
biography"
Chapman: Il will not be long before we como
to the last cross that hides the crown from our
view, and If we refuse any cross that may prove
to be the one.
God never suffered the devil to take posses-
sion of an immortal soul and drag IL down to hell
until that soul walked to the feet of the devil
and stacked its arms and said IL surrender
forever"
Confucius: Do not be DESTROYS to have things
done quickly; do not look at small advantages
Desire TO have things done quickly prevents
theirbeing done thoroughly. Looking at small
advantages prevents great AFFAIRS from being &C
complished.
Lydia Maria Child: You find yourself re-
freshed by the presence of cheerful people;
why not make earnest effort to confer that pleas
ure on others2 You will find half the battle is
gained IL you never allow yourself to say any
Ruskin: If you want knowledge. you must
toll for il; il food, you must toll for il; and il
pleasure, you must toll for it. Toll is the law.
Pleasure comes through toll, and not by self
indulgence and Incidence When one gets to
love work, his life is happy one
On the day, in $40, that King Arthur
afterwards archbishop of st. David's, ordered
the Welsh soldiers to place q leek In their caps.
IL is to this circumstance that the leeks selection
the EN- bIem of Wales is ascribed.
Bangor Commercial: Last Sunday a teacher
in q Maine Sunday-school had been telling her
class about Moses, dwelling at longth upon his
sn nnd sss kind Of es
was MosesT All was silent for moment, when
one little fellow answered up: ~ think he
boy, ma'am"
Chicago Living Church: correspondent
sends the following: II was once building
church in village in Canada. The carpenter
choir stalls, etc, and altar. He see ed puzzled,
so asked him what wanting We'll SIR
he answered, this is all beautiful, but you've left
no room for the sote'h
The result Of the Lenten mte-chests in ST.
AuRustines. New York city, was $4l6 OF this
amount nearly $400 was in cents. Word was
sent TO the board Of missions that some one
would have to come and help carry it to the
mission rooms. 1t required three men, and they
4 had all they wanted to do. TO convey it from
the church 10 No. % Bible House.
Spurgeon: Get TO the root of things. The
gold minds of Scripture are not in the top soil;
you must open a shaft; the precious diamonds
Of experience nre not picked up in the roadway;
their secret places are far down. Get down into
the vitality. the solidity, the veracity, the
divinity OF the word of God. and seek to pos
all the inward work of the blessed Spirit.
Inc following is a verbatim copy or one OF the
Salvation Army circulars recently issued in one
of the chief cities of Kansas
Smiling Belle from Wichita. Kan. The girl who
4-nped out of a two-story window ~ get salvation,
will be at IS Rink, Monday, April :, at P. NJ.
Cyclone of salvatopi Tornadoss Of powsrl Gales of
gracet Celestial breezes Collection the door
defray expenses.
DIR. G. C. McCabe writes: ".All hail the power
Of Jesus namep The Methodists of the United
States in the past four years have built three
churches every day, with $50 to spare-or
within 259 of four day. This Is the net gain.
New churches in new places. Tell it at tho next
meeting of the rum league! Tell it at the next
infdel conventionl And more than that tell all
the people thai united Professionalism is building
new churches at the rate OF ten for every dsy!'
Organic union is still being discussed ana the
Christian Intelligeneer SAYS: The Methodists,
Baptists, CoDgreRatioDalists. etc, show no ten
dency, not the least, toward organic union.
Furthermore the union of all denominations in
one organization would be dangerous, would tend
TO Papacy. Large churches are considered By
many not desirable. because attended with many
md increasing evils In the case OF Episcopal
ians PresbytAriaus and the Reformed Dutch and
German denominations the great obstacles are
In the old barriers apostolic succession. the
Westminster Confession and the Heidelberg
Catachism.
celebrated Italian music teacher took under
his charge a bright young genius. to train him
70 be public singer. lie gave the youth one
lesson. to be practiced over and over again
throughout the year. Whom the second year
began the pupil hoped for n course of in
structiou; bur- instead of that the same lesson
was appointed for twelve months more. When
the year mp tho teacher said to him, - ouss
may 20 now. for / cannot teach Won anything
more and the young man went forth after this
long. steady drill to be one OF the foremost sing
ers Of Italy II Is on this same principle that
our divine Master instructs his spiritual schol-
Ars In the training school OF life We get the